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1. pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 10:09:50 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
   Looks like obo.sh is dead. Remember when I remarked that they weren't gonna survive if they didn't stop the CP problem? Apparently, 107 deactivated accounts of the 709 that federated this way. Fedilist hasn't seen them since 2023-06-02: http://demo.fedilist.com/instance/obo.sh
   
   Anyway, Cloudflare seems to have dropped them, and unless they switched VPSs, their old IP (198.46.190.102) is also dead, and the registrar indicates the domain was updated 2023-06-08. This is probably why the uptick in people signing up and then bashing "child porn" into the search box. (That search term, incidentally, does not yield the results that they are hoping for.) That's fykijoti's deal, apparently. I'd like it noted that fykijoti's from 91.63.115.108, which is Deutsche Telekom: it is always Germans.
   
   As far as the reason they are dead, I don't know what happened. Maybe their host dropped them, maybe Cloudflare did, maybe the domain expired, or maybe it was an experiment to begin with. The admin was cagey when I told him he was going to have this problem if he didn't get a handle on the CP (AI-generated stuff is enough of a problem but they had actual photographs of children), I interpreted that to mean he intended to create the problem he created, but if this was another academic research paper, that could account for the evasiveness (although it doesn't preclude the possibility that the problems created were intentional).
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 10:10:16 JST Machismo

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     @p >it is always Germans
     m8
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 10:11:54 JST Machismo

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     • Machismo
     @p Also now I'm assuming you put an easter-egg on that search term, so I kinda want to see what it is.
   • Mong (mcmongoose@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 11:29:48 JST Mong

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     • Machismo
     @Zerglingman @p
     There's only 2 and a half normal Germans and they are all on fedi
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   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 15:21:26 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • Machismo
     @Zerglingman I say Germans because I mean Germans.
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   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 16:31:24 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • Himbo Techbro
     @r000t
     
     > what one is supposed to do about people, in large numbers btw, throwing terms like that into one's fedi search engine.
     
     That is a good question. I didn't like doing it to FSE, but the idea was to stop those people from making accounts. (That didn't stop until boardreader.com went away.) I think you're relatively immune if it's a search engine, right, it's automated indexing.
     
     > I suspect it's people looking for results to *report* to authorities based on searches those IPs run before and after
     
     Like they are looking for accounts to report, or they are trying to get rid of your search engine?
     
     > Also wondering if hardcoding joke responses helps me at all or if it establishes me as a publisher making editorial decisions.
     
     Reasonable steps to avoid illegal activity don't constitute editorial decisions.
   • Himbo Techbro (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 16:31:24 JST Himbo Techbro

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     @p They're search terms that make absolutely no sense unless you view them as messages to me.

     For example, a user's path *almost always* starts with them searching for their own nickname, then their instance's domain name. *Normal* users then move on to general topics, or meme phrases.

     These users start with that same pattern, they search for their own nickname, then their instance's domain name. Then they search for my nickname, and then it's something like "GDPR violation" "how to report to GDPR" (this isn't Google?), "scrapers violate privacy", "kill yourself shithead scraper", and *then* they graduate to searching for, to put it lightly, illegal things.

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   • Himbo Techbro (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 16:31:25 JST Himbo Techbro

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     @p
     I was gonna ask btw, what one is supposed to do about people, in large numbers btw, throwing terms like that into one's fedi search engine.

     I suspect it's people looking for results to *report* to authorities based on searches those IPs run before and after.

     Also wondering if hardcoding joke responses helps me at all or if it establishes me as a publisher making editorial decisions.